The Chinese Have An Excellent Proverb: "be

On Entering This World Our Starting-point Is Ignorance. None, However, But Idiots Remain There.

Genius May Conceive But Patient Labor Must Consummate.

Astronomy Is One Of The Sublimest Fields Of Human Investigation. The Mind That Grasps Its Facts And Principles Receives Something Of The Enlargement And Grandeur Belonging To The Science Itself. It Is A Quickener Of Devotion.

Let But The Public Mind Become Once Thoroughly Corrupt, And All Attempts To Secure Property, Liberty Or Life, By Mere Force Of Laws Written On Parchment, Will Be As Vain As To Put Up Printed Notices In An Orchard To Keep Off The Canker-worms.

Every Event In This World Is The Effect Of Some Precedent Cause, And Also The Cause Of Some Subsequent Effect.